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JetBlue captain goes berserk on NYC-to-Vegas flight (Videos in the link)
New York Post ^ | March 27, 2012 | BILL SANDERSON and PEDRO OLIVEIRA Jr.

Posted on 03/27/2012 12:17:24 PM PDT by Kaslin

A JetBlue captain went berserk on a flight from Kennedy Airport to Las Vegas today in an incident that forced the plane to make an emergency landing, passengers and authorities said.

“Say your prayers!” the crazed pilot screamed as he ran up and down the aisle, a passenger told The Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: flightcrewmeltdown; jetblue; lauriedhue; pilotsnaps; sleepdeprivation
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1 posted on 03/27/2012 12:17:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

You know, it seems odd to me that a flight attendant and now a pilot would lose it, so close in time, and in such a similar way.

Something very strange is going on.


2 posted on 03/27/2012 12:20:37 PM PDT by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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Laurie Dhue formerly of Fox News was on the flight and is reporting per telephone to Shepherd Smith


3 posted on 03/27/2012 12:20:49 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Laurie Dhue was reporting on CNN about this....she was on the flight.


4 posted on 03/27/2012 12:21:35 PM PDT by mtnwmn (Liberalism leads to Socialism)
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To: brownsfan

It is indeed


5 posted on 03/27/2012 12:21:50 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: mtnwmn

Yeah she was talking to Sheperd Smith via telephone


6 posted on 03/27/2012 12:23:14 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin; Impy; bocopar; Clemenza; Clintonfatigued; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy

Jet Blue, the Jolly Fats Weehawken of the skies.


7 posted on 03/27/2012 12:24:00 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj
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To: brownsfan

National depression?


8 posted on 03/27/2012 12:24:08 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: brownsfan; Quix; null and void

Something’s going on. Someone’s doing this to flight personnel.


9 posted on 03/27/2012 12:25:16 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Shut up and drill.)
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To: Lazamataz

Consider terrorists doing things like putting a hallucinogenic put into the pilot’s meal.


10 posted on 03/27/2012 12:32:21 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: Lazamataz

Yep, it is called crew scheduling using a program called the crew “optimizer” aka the crew sodomizer...

My wife is on medical leave as a pilot from a “major” due to substaintial sleep deprivation issues. Looking back, the 2 years prior to her health collapse were absolutely horrendous, we never looked at the schedule she was working until the damage was done.... I am pretty sure the flying public will see more of this cr@p.


11 posted on 03/27/2012 12:34:05 PM PDT by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: Kaslin

He must have had the fish.


12 posted on 03/27/2012 12:34:50 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (May Mitt Romney be the Paul Tsongas of 2012.)
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To: PapaBear3625

...or perhaps having some ground-staff jihadi taking a hallucinogenic or slow acting toxin and rubbing it on the cockpit controls while “cleaning”.


13 posted on 03/27/2012 12:35:33 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: Article10

Interesting. My belief was that forces more .. sinister ... were at work. But this could easily be attributed to horrid personnel practices. This is one of the EXTREMELY FEW CASES where unionization might serve a role.


14 posted on 03/27/2012 12:36:37 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Shut up and drill.)
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To: PapaBear3625

That’s some very excellent out-of-the-box thinking.


15 posted on 03/27/2012 12:39:45 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Shut up and drill.)
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To: Kaslin

We’ve been on this flight many times to Vegas-Amazing!


16 posted on 03/27/2012 12:42:42 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: brownsfan

It might be the extra solar radiation caused by the solar storms going on recently.

Was the captain Flying While Muzzie?


17 posted on 03/27/2012 12:43:44 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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The airport, the plane made the emergency landing is the Rick Husband Airport, which was renamed in 2003 after fallen NASA astronaut and Amarillo native Richard Douglas Husband, who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in February of that year.


18 posted on 03/27/2012 12:46:55 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Lazamataz

Nothing more sinister than greed at work here... ask any airline pilot how things are going since 9/11.

I am no union fan, especially ALPA. The Unions just roll over all the time at the expense of the members just to keep the gravy train alive. Crew rest is just a non-winner when negociating. Face the facts, the airlines will not hire more crew and just consume the ones there right now.

My wife timed out for the year in Oct of her last year she flew, nearly killed her. All she bid on was a start time essentially, every day was considered “an operational emergency” and the contract was ignored. Much akin to a huricane or major snow storm, type operations The operational emergency was the fact the big D was in Bankrupcy! I wish I could make this crap up. ALPA just went along with it and yawned...


19 posted on 03/27/2012 12:47:11 PM PDT by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: Lazamataz

Laz. You said 'doing this' to flight personnel?!

20 posted on 03/27/2012 12:47:29 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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